These playful graphic prints by graphic designer, filmmaker and artist Safwat Saleem are quite entertaining. Coupled is a series that features relationships between two inanimate objects or cartoons that are interacting with each other in very unexpected ways. The two-color designs incorporate simple silhouettes paired with clever captions that give surprising meaning to each scene. Through just a few simple words, Saleem gives personality to the otherwise non-speaking, sedentary things.

Hang on. I just want to talk.
A fish says “Must…Resist…” as he lingers too close to a fishhook, a sun “LOL”s as a snowman melts below, and a friendly ghost chases Pac-Man, saying “Hang on, I just want to talk.” According to Saleem’s project statement, “These prints were made for a love-themed exhibit that opened in February 2013 at the 6th Avenue Gallery in downtown Phoenix.” Most of the moments will make you chuckle while some of them will have you feeling sympathy for the lonely objects.

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South Korean sculptor and artist Hyungkoo Lee has created a very unusual series of sculptures entitled «Homo Animatus», which recreated the skeletons of cartoon characters.To create a sculpture master used resin, aluminum sticks, steel wires, springs and oil paint. If you look carefully, you may well see all familiar characters from favorite cartoons in our childhood.You will see the bones of our favorite childhood friends like Canis Latrans Animatus (Wile E. Coyote), Geococcyx Animatus (Roadrunner), Lepus Animatus (Bugs Bunny), Felis Catus Animatus (Tom), Mus Animatus (Jerry), Anas Animatus (Donald Duck) and his three nephews, Animatus H, D and L ( Huey, Dewey and Louie).

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Are you a fan of the “The Walking Dead”? If you are, you’ll love these new watercolor paintings by artist Christopher Uminga.Using watercolor and ink, he created great prints starring the cool cast and the supporting zombies.Uminga slowly moves to watercolor to give the images character. Their eyes are shaded in yellow that transitions to white and their expressions are all straight faced.

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A nice series entitled “Cassette Relooking” entirely handmade by Paris-based artist Benoit Jammes.He decided to make use of an old collection of cassette tapes by turning them into awesome little pieces of pop art.Cassettes are taking us for a ride on the imagination train and they’re transformed to whatever Jammes puts in mind: Rocket ships, Homer Simpson, clouds or works of art.

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Federico Uribe is an artist who lives and works in Miami, Florida, creating pencil sculpture and pencil “paintings”.Federico was born in Bogota, Colombia and studied art at the University of Los Andes in Bogota. Upon graduating, he worked and studied in New York, Cuba, Mexico, Russia and England before settling in Miami.Federico’s pencil paintings are composed entirely of sharpened, unsharpened, whole and broken pencils.

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